World

Why Hayek Matters

Sandipan Deb

To most of us, Hayek means Salma. But the ideas of Nobel Prize-winning economist-philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek are perhaps more relevant today, to the world and to India, than ever before

Britain’s New Coalition

Venkata Vemuri

Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are to share power with David Cameron as PM and Nick Clegg as his deputy. This experiment could nudge electoral reforms along that democrats worldwide would be watching.

Olympian Heights

Sajeda Momin

London’s tallest structure, dwarfing the Statue of Liberty by 22 metres, is being designed by Indian-origin sculptor Anish Kapoor. And what’s more, NRI Lakshmi Mittal is footing the bill.

Medicine’s not Enough to Save a Doctor’s Life

Sajeda Momin

A group in the UK is helping ethnic minority doctors fight against the prejudices and inequities they face.

Heir Reluctant

Hartosh Singh Bal

Fatima Bhutto on the Disneyfication of the family graveyard and why she likes to steer clear of politics.

A Veteran’s Debut

Akshay Sawai

In Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls, Sanath Jayasuriya is the star candidate of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s party while his former captain Arjuna Ranatunga is batting for General Fonseka.

Racist Recruit

Sajeda Momin

Rajinder Singh is a retired school teacher who migrated to the UK in 1967 and ironically started supporting a party that demanded the forcible repatriation of all non-Europeans. Now, he is about to go down in history as the first non-White mascot of the British National Party.

‘He used the military for personal gains’

VK Shashikumar

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s younger brother and Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in New Delhi recently. He told Open that former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, who had contested the presidential elections, will be tried for treason and for politicising the army.

Coalition Sceptre Hangs over British Elections

Venkata Vemuri

With the increasing popularity of LibDems, the UK could see a hung parliament this year, as traditional Labour supporters now have the option of changing their mind without voting Conservative.